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– Sat 6 Sep: Seann Branchfield Acoustic Performance Gizzy's Coffee 16 W 8th Street, New York, NY, USA
– Sat 6 Sep: Messa Clementina II a 5 voci e Stabat Mater a 10 voci Ronciglione, VITERBO
– Sat 6 Sep: Short romantic pieces for piano Michel Body Str. 12, 4460 Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium
– Sat 6 Sep: Eloi Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TQ, United Kingdom
– Tue 16 Sep: Cycles - A feast of Orchestral Song Cadogan Hall, London, UK

– Musikpreis Salzburg 2009 awarded to Klaus Huber 11 Aug 2008
– Wagstaff's Piano Quintet released on CD 6 Aug 2008
– Statue unveiled to honour Séan Ó Riada 4 Aug 2008
– Norman Dello Joio dies at 95 29 Jul 2008

Birthdays:
– Brian P. Gillett
– Lior Navok
– Detlev Glanert
– Carlos Sandoval
– Joan Tower
Dying days:
– Léon Orthel
– Ronald Binge
– Karl Ranki
– Hanns Eisler
– Felix Borowski
Events:
– (1974) Klaus Huber: Premiere of Turnus, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
– (1910) Thomas Tallis: Premiere of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, in Gloucester, England.
– (1910) Ralph Vaughan Williams: Premiere of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, in Gloucester, England.
– (1791) Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart: Premiere of La Clemenza di Tito, in Prague, Czech Republic, with Mozart conducting.

– Boris Berlin (5 Sep)
– Herman Berlinski (5 Sep)
– Johan Daniel Berlin (5 Sep)
– Victor Schlesinger (5 Sep)
– Anton Berlijn (5 Sep)
– Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (4 Sep)
– Andreas (Andries) Pevernage (4 Sep)
– John Newell (4 Sep)
– Chan Ka Nin (4 Sep)
– Nicolas (Clais) Champion (4 Sep)

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Born: 10 June 1945 — Adelaide — Australia

Died:

An eclectic composer, with two main areas of interest: the life, work and ideas of Lewis Carroll (e.g. the full-length choral work "Boojum!" and the chamber work "Snark-Hunting") and the plight of the people of East Timor (e.g. "A Luta Continua" for baritone, girls choir & orchestra). He is a pioneer of audio-visual composition in Australia, and regularly tours doing concerts of audio-visual pieces such as "Welcome to the Hotel Turismo", for cello & computer, "Weapons of Mass Distortion", for clarinet & computer, and "Papua Merdeka", for bass clarinet & computer.

Martin Wesley-Smith studied composition at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, with Peter Tahourdin, Peter Maxwell Davies, Sandor Veress & Jindrich Feld. He did post-graduate studies at the University of York in England (supervisor: Richard Orton). Taught composition, computer music etc at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1974 to 2000. Wesley-Smith now lives in Kangaroo Valley (two hours south of Sydney), where he composes, puts on concerts, and tends ducks.

• http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~mwsmith

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